Chapter Summaries

The Ancient Gods’ war spread across thousands of worlds as the Son of Heaven, Wales, and Duolong deployed forces in a vast game of strategy. Li Qing revealed that the victorious ruler of the region could become an Ancient God, while Sylvie prepared to use false intelligence to strike the Son of Heaven.

• The Immortal Dao Civilization invaded worlds and secret realms, while Sylvie Academy’s students used level-based systems and specialized teams to overwhelm defenders.
• The Son of Heaven, Wales, and Duolong moved invisibly through the chaos, deploying armies across the worlds and weighing the risks of ambushes and leaked information.
• Sylvie explained that the war could last hundreds or thousands of years as the players occupied worlds and built up forces across the multiversal chessboard.
• Li Qing revealed that Crystal Wall Snails secretly served the two Sylvies and could feed the Son of Heaven and Duolong false intelligence.
• Sylvie vowed to use the grand momentum to strike back at the Son of Heaven, and Li Qing confirmed that the final victor could become an Ancient God.

Li Qing judged that Duolong would lose the Ancient Gods’ war and considered how the old Technology Side powers could be used to usher in a new age. Over three centuries, Ji Cao rose as the Heavenly Emperor, reshaping the conflict across thousands of worlds while rejecting offers from the Son of Heaven and Duolong.

• Li Qing told Sylvie that Duolong was likely to lose and described his plan to use exhausted Technology Side Above God Level beings as obstacles for the next generation.
• After Li Qing left, Sylvie decided to help Duolong and trouble the Son of Heaven without entering the war herself.
• Over three hundred years, the Ancient Gods’ conflict spread across seven thousand worlds, while powerful True Gods gained fame and the worlds increasingly forgot the Ancient Gods.
• Ji Cao pacified seven worlds on the Seventh Front, defeated thousands of True Gods, and became known across more than a thousand worlds as the Heavenly Emperor.
• The Son of Heaven and Duolong each tried to recruit Ji Cao, but he refused both offers because the Immortal Dao Civilization had bound him with a life-controlling potion.
• Ji Cao resented fighting for the Ancient Gods, but continued his campaigns and grew powerful enough to annihilate several great worlds.

After the Immortal Dao Civilization’s conquest slowed, Duolong recruited the prodigy Xian Yuan, who revealed that Ji Cao was a humanoid supreme medicine cultivated to be consumed. Xian Yuan entered Duolong’s mecha and secretly planned revenge on the Immortal Dao Civilization with help from the two Fairy Maiden sisters.

• Ji Cao learned that the other two Divine Kingdoms had deciphered the Life-Contending Pill and began using it, so he continued the war at a slower pace.
• A hundred years later, Duolong heard of Xian Yuan, a thirty-year-old demigod whose talent rivaled Ji Cao’s, and brought him out of his world.
• Xian Yuan told Duolong that Ji Cao was a supreme medicine cultivated by the Immortal Dao Ancient God, and that consuming him could grant immense potential.
• Duolong decided to spread the secret so others would covet Ji Cao, then gave Xian Yuan control of the mecha while keeping ultimate authority over it.
• Xian Yuan vowed to follow the two Fairy Maiden sisters’ instructions, take revenge on the Immortal Dao Civilization, and offer Ji Cao to them.

After the secret of Immortal Emperor Ji Cao’s origins spread, he rebelled against Black Star and declared his world free of the Ancient Gods. Black Star and the other gods arranged to accelerate time around Ji Cao, but Ji Cao welcomed the resulting curse as a chance to grow stronger.

• Rumors that Immortal Emperor Ji Cao was an immortal herb spread across the All Heavens World, drawing assassins who were quickly killed.
• Ji Cao conquered more than eight thousand of the twelve thousand worlds, while Professor Wales realized Black Star’s plan to use and consume him would backfire.
• Ji Cao declared himself independent, claimed he would become an Ancient God, and ordered his followers to kill believers in the three Ancient Gods.
• Black Star admitted he could not bring himself to kill Ji Cao, so Professor Wales proposed accelerating time in their worlds until Ji Cao aged or fought his way out.
• The Son of Heaven and Duolong agreed to the plan, and the Ancient Gods imposed a curse making one day equal five hundred years wherever Ji Cao went.
• Ji Cao celebrated the curse, believing the Ancient Gods had given him the opportunity he needed to escape their control.

Ji Cao faced an Ancient God curse that accelerated the aging of his worlds, while his people and ministers feared rebellion and defeat. After hearing Minis recount the destruction of the Atabia Dynasty, Ji Cao realized that the gods were waiting for him to mature into a coveted Immortal Medicine, and he suspected Minis wanted to use him to revive Atabia.

• The Ancient Gods’ curse spread across Ji Cao’s worlds, accelerating time and stirring fear and resentment among the people.
• Ji Cao summoned Minis and asked how to respond as his ministers warned that the Immortal Dao True Gods might rebel.
• Minis recounted how the Ancient Gods destroyed the Atabia Dynasty with disasters, leaving Ji Cao shaken by the similarity to his own struggle.
• Ji Cao questioned Minis about his motives, and Minis admitted he wanted Ji Cao’s Immortal Grass to revive a fourth-tier mortal rather than consume it for himself.
• Ji Cao recognized that the Ancient Gods and Minis were waiting for him to mature, then asked if Minis intended to revive Atabia.

Minis reflected on the Ancient Gods’ wars and planned to seek the Immortal Medicine to awaken Atabia safely. As Ji Cao’s people turned against him under the Ancient Gods’ curse, he began a rebellion against the gods and the Immortal Dao, while powerful beings across the worlds sensed the start of a new era.

• Minis told the Sacred Dragon that he could not awaken Atabia without risking damage and that he planned to pursue the Immortal Medicine when it appeared in the chaos.
• Rebels invaded Ji Cao’s Immortal Palace, accusing him of bringing the Ancient Gods’ curse upon their world and demanding that he be sent beyond the Crystal Wall.
• Ji Cao declared that the gods had made him a tyrant and ordered the Godslayer plan, leading his unsullied ministers and allies to fight the Church troops and abolish the Life-Contending Pill.
• Ji Cao denounced the Immortal Dao as evil and prepared to rebel against the Thorn Heavenly Dao, while two scientists, the three giant gods, and the Son of Heaven sensed the upheaval.
• Minis heard the distant call of a returning figure and recognized that a new era was rising like another wave.

While Above God Level beings argued over how to enter the Crystal Wall System Universe and claim the Immortal Medicine, Li Qing devised a way to break their stalemate. He offered to sell primitive bonfires that could let them reveal themselves safely, but the proposal made the hidden beings fear a surprise attack.

• The Above God Level beings discussed Ji Cao, the Immortal Medicine, and the dangers of the Life-Contending Pill while debating whether to enter together.
• Li Qing concealed himself outside the Crystal Wall and listened as the beings argued over the risk of betrayal and ambush.
• Li Qing decided that selling primitive bonfires could break the deadlock and allow the beings to reveal themselves.
• Li Qing offered the hidden beings primitive bonfires, prompting them to suspect a dangerous Extraordinary System civilization was nearby.
• Li Qing said he had only just arrived as a guest, but the others remained alarmed by the threat of someone using a bonfire to attack them.

Li Qing sold Primordial Bonfires to the powerful civilizations gathered outside the Thorn World in exchange for their mecha blueprints. Meanwhile, Professor Wales and Black Star discussed the coming clash over the Chaos Immortal Grass, until Wales saw the bonfires light up outside and suspected Black Star had brought the invaders in.

• Li Qing offered Primordial Bonfires in exchange for the civilizations’ mecha blueprints, and the gathered Above God Level existences agreed to buy them.
• Several years later, Li Qing had collected the blueprints and the civilizations outside each had a Primordial Bonfire.
• Professor Wales told Black Star that Ji Cao would soon reach Above God Level and become immune to his poison, leaving them to compete for the Chaos Immortal Grass.
• Black Star said he wanted revenge, and Professor Wales warned that the emerging Chaos Immortal Grass would bring their first clash in chaos.
• Professor Wales saw torches illuminate the space outside the Thorn World and accused Black Star of bringing the invaders in.

Professor Wales concluded that an unknown Ancient God had sent the bonfire, and he deduced that the being resting nearby was Nokron and his visiting guest was the Thunder Ancient God. His reasoning connected the newcomers’ journey through the worlds to Nokron’s ancient history and left the group confronting the presence of two legendary beings.

• Walton accused Black Star of bringing in the newcomers, but Wales and Black Star’s explanation convinced the group that Black Star was not responsible.
• Wales remembered that a recently awakened existence had said he was expecting a guest, and he feared that the guest had arrived.
• Wales proposed that the bonfire’s source was the Thunder Ancient God, whose history connected him to Nokron and the Abyss World.
• Walton and Magina traced Nokron’s revival to the Abyss World and inferred that the Thunder Ancient God and the Ancient God of Light had once contended over the region.
• Wales concluded that Nokron was the being resting in the ruins and that the Thunder Ancient God was his guest, while the newcomers had followed Nokron’s route through the worlds.

Professor Wales prepared Thorn World for an invasion as twenty-three Above God Levels gathered outside, believing they could overwhelm the defenders. The torch-selling Ancient God appeared inside Thorn World and walked into a neighboring world, leaving both sides stunned by his ability to cross the universe’s boundaries.

• Professor Wales ordered Thorn World’s resources evacuated and its defenses raised, expecting the approaching Above God Levels to invade.
• The twenty-three Above God Levels illuminated the area with torches, uncovered one another, and agreed to charge Thorn World together.
• A figure inside Thorn World laughed at the invaders’ plan and revealed himself as the Ancient God who had sold them torches.
• The Ancient God walked through Thorn World into a neighboring world without crossing the Crystal Wall or entering the Chaos Corridor.
• Professor Wales’s group and the invaders watched in stunned silence as the Ancient God vanished among the neighboring world’s people.

Black Star and his allies ambushed the Above God Level invaders as they tried to escape Thorn World, while Ji Cao held one of them back inside. After the fighting, Ji Cao threatened Black Star and the others through the Crystal Wall, setting up another confrontation.

• The Above God Level invaders entered Thorn World to seize its resources, while the Waltons filmed them and Crystal Wall cried out in alarm.
• As the invaders reached the world's edge, Magina, Black Star, and their allies ambushed them, killing several as the rest fled.
• Ji Cao returned to Thorn World and dragged one of the strongest invaders into battle, despite his wounds and the danger of disintegration.
• Hidden assassins killed two more fleeing invaders, leaving only the opponent fighting Ji Cao still inside Thorn World.
• Ji Cao pressed the defeated invader's head against the Crystal Wall and warned Black Star and the others that they were next.

After the battle, Professor Wales reasoned that the Thunder Ancient God had opened the worlds to cultivate a new ruler for the region, and he resolved to compete for the Ancient God seat. Minis decided to seek Aurora to contact the Thunder Ancient God, while Ji Cao searched for the mysterious Ancient God as his only hope of surviving his breakthrough.

• Ji Cao declared that he would kill Black Star and the Gods, and Black Star told him he would wait for him.
• Professor Wales concluded that the Thunder Ancient God’s contest was meant to select a new helmsman, and he believed he could win the Ancient God seat despite Nokron’s plans.
• Minis considered asking the Thunder Ancient God to revive Atabia and decided to find Aurora so she could help him make contact.
• Ji Cao crossed a barren desert and searched for the mysterious Ancient God, whom he believed could help him break through the wall of chaos.

As rumors spread about the Ancient God who could travel between worlds, Aurora met Li Qing, the Thunder Ancient God, again in the Qing Xuan Realm. Li Qing awakened her as a directly affiliated Creator God, transformed her bearing, and publicly named her his adopted daughter, leaving Aurora overwhelmed by the attention.

• As news of Ji Cao’s victory and the mysterious Ancient God spread through the multiverse, Aurora traveled through the war-torn Qing Xuan Realm.
• Aurora heard that the Ancient God could walk between worlds and wondered whether the Thunder Ancient God had returned to find her.
• Li Qing appeared before Aurora and said he had come to check on the promise he made.
• Li Qing awakened Aurora as a directly affiliated Creator God and transformed her aura, leaving him gone before she could respond.
• People nearby became captivated by Aurora’s beauty, and she tried to flee the sudden attention.
• Li Qing’s voice declared Aurora his adopted daughter and the most beautiful woman under heaven, prompting a heavenly spectacle and intensifying the crowd’s frenzy.

Li Qing used a universe-wide blessing and Aurora’s new title to display the power of an Ancient God, while drawing attention to her across the worlds. As Minis and others moved to find Aurora, Li Qing prepared to meet her and use the spectacle to build a convincing image of a supreme Ancient God.

• The Crystal Wall sent blessings and nourishing energy rain throughout more than ten thousand worlds after the Ancient God declared Aurora the most beautiful woman under Heaven.
• Minis realized the worlds had located Aurora and set out to find her, while the Sacred Dragon warned that she had become the focus of everyone’s attention.
• Ji Cao continued advancing through the worlds despite being hunted, and decided to seek out the woman praised as the most beautiful under Heaven.
• Professor Wales and Magina marveled at the Ancient God’s power, while Walton and his companion filmed the phenomena and recalled the terror of the Primordial Era.
• Li Qing explained that he had spent his resources to create the spectacle and subtly impress the outsiders with the Ancient God’s power.
• Li Qing arranged to meet Aurora and considered using her beauty to draw further attention and excitement across the worlds.

Li Qing accepted a looser approach to governing his expanding worlds and focused on building more Crystal Wall Snails and protective walls. Years later, Ji Cao battled heavenly prodigies who challenged him for Aurora’s favor, then offered her the immortal herbs made from his defeated enemies.

• Li Qing decided to leave most living beings unshackled and rely on Crystal Wall Snails to build protective layers around his worlds.
• Several years passed, and Aurora became the top-ranked beauty of the Myriad Worlds as a new generation of heavenly prodigies emerged.
• Ji Cao traveled toward Aurora, and heavenly prodigies confronted him, confident that their numbers and cultivation could defeat him.
• Ji Cao revealed that his Man-Eating Flower specialization let him mutate True Gods into spirit herbs, which he swallowed.
• Ji Cao killed a dozen or so prodigies, transformed them into immortal herbs, and presented them to Aurora as a gift.

Aurora discovered that Ji Cao’s mutated immortal grass could steal and graft aptitude, and she used it to raise her combat aptitude to 96. Years later, Ji Cao turned the hunt against him into a new devil dynasty, establishing a people-eating cultivation path that opposed the Immortal Race.

• Ji Cao gave Aurora a bouquet of immortal grass and left, while Aurora realized it could permanently graft aptitude taken from chosen ones.
• Aurora ate a stalk and raised her combat aptitude from 71 to 96, then hoped Ji Cao would survive.
• Over the following years, Ji Cao defeated the true gods hunting him and mutated them into immortal grass, drawing pursuit toward the chosen ones he released.
• Ji Cao mutated entire worlds and used the stolen aptitudes to empower his followers, plunging the multiverse into turmoil.
• Ji Cao formed the Yellow Springs Demon Dynasty and declared the Devil Race would cultivate through the Mortal Eating People Stream.
• Li Qing recognized the emergence of the devil Dao as a major surprise and noted that immortals, devils, martial artists, and sorcerers had all developed.

Ji Cao’s Demonic Dao swept across the Myriad Worlds, wiping out nearly all civilization as Li Qing and Wales watched the calamity unfold. Wales explained that the Ancient Gods’ oppression had made a demon lord inevitable, while Black Star worried that Ji Cao had escaped their control and now sought to overthrow them.

• Ji Cao began the Demonic Sacrifice by mutating the common people, and the changed world eventually erupted into widespread cannibalism and slaughter.
• Li Qing watched the destruction and blamed Black Star and the Ancient Gods, but chose not to interfere in the cycle of catastrophe and rebirth.
• By Year 18 of the Demonic Sacrifice, the multiverse’s population had fallen by 99 percent, and only elite Demon True Gods remained to hunt or hide from Ji Cao.
• Wales told Magina and the others that resistance to the Ancient Gods’ oppression had been inevitable and compared the opposing Immortal and Demonic systems to extremes.
• Black Star warned that Ji Cao had abandoned the systems promoted by the Ancient Gods and was now trying to overthrow them, likening him to Sun Wukong escaping the alchemy furnace.

Professor Wales explained that the Ancient Gods had erred by resisting each era’s Heaven’s Mandate, and they began adapting to the demonic cultivation tide. Ji Cao rebuilt his dynasty and prepared to break out of the prison region, while continuing to strengthen himself and returning to Aurora.

• Professor Wales told Black Star and the others that Ancient Gods should follow each world’s Heaven’s Mandate and secretly cultivate the era’s dominant race rather than impose their own systems.
• The Ancient Gods stopped sending their races into demonic worlds and began secretly developing demonic cultivators, while fifteen Above God Level beings established demonic sects.
• After several years, the Ancient Gods learned that demonic cultivation produced fewer top geniuses than the Immortal Dao Civilization.
• Ji Cao reclaimed the Emperor’s Seat after his dynasty reunified the Central Heaven Realm and considered the risks of the region becoming a vast field of Immortal Grass.
• In Demonic Sacrifice Year 651, Ji Cao found the threshold to Above God Level but chose to keep accumulating his foundation before breaking through.
• Ji Cao visited Aurora again and presented her with a bouquet of Immortal Grass, telling her he had stabilized everything and returned.

Years later, Aurora and Ji Cao met again in fairyland, where the Thunder Ancient God, appearing as Li Qing, claimed that Aurora’s mother, Elise, had created her to inspire future generations to kill the Father. Aurora accepted the explanation, and Ji Cao asked Li Qing to teach him how to break through beyond Above God Level so he could fight his enemies fairly.

• Aurora welcomed the weary Ji Cao and listened as he explained that being near her brought him peace, though she had no interest in love.
• Li Qing suddenly appeared beside them and said Elise had created Aurora as a weapon against the Father, whose presence had inspired emperors and heroes across the ages.
• Aurora wondered if she had unknowingly kindled hope in those figures, while Ji Cao marveled at the possibility that Elise had planned this legacy.
• Li Qing privately doubted Elise had consciously planned so far ahead, but told Aurora that her mother had possessed the foresight to leave hope behind.
• Ji Cao bowed to Li Qing and asked him to teach him how to reach the realm beyond Above God Level so he could fight his enemies fairly.

Li Qing invented a trial for Ji Cao to obtain a method for breaking beyond Above God Level, turning the search for a Six-Thorned Crown of Thorns into a multiverse-wide challenge. When Above God Level beings tried to obstruct the contestants, Li Qing made the maze shift through continental drift and crustal movement.

• Ji Cao asked Li Qing for a way to break through beyond Above God Level, and Li Qing agreed to teach him if he passed a trial.
• Li Qing announced that beings in every Greater Thousand World could seek the Six-Thorned Crown of Thorns by sending their consciousness through the chaos, with success earning the breakthrough method.
• The crown appeared inside a distant Crystal Wall World, while Technology Side mechas discovered they could not probe it with consciousness waves.
• Above God Level beings began blocking the maze corridors to stop True Gods from reaching the crown.
• Li Qing made continental drift and crustal movement into laws, causing the Crystal Wall rooms and the maze to shift continuously.